reef-pi

Hey! I’m excited to announce that we’ve just launched our Kickstarter campaign for the Robo-Tank aquarium controller, and we’ve introduced some amazing new features! We’re now offering the EC (Electrical Conductivity) circuit and a dosing pump stepper motor extension. Both of these new...

Hi, My reef-pi works great. I have temp and pH connected. There's one problem thou, it wont POST in some situations. My setup: Raspberry Pi 3B+ Latest linux (apt update and upgrade) reef-pi 6.0 Cheap aliexpress analog pH board and pH probe ADS1115 via i2c I've connected the pH board to A0 on...

Hello Reef2Reef! I’m Rob Fowler, the creator of Robo-Tank, a modular and customizable aquarium controller that has been evolving for nearly a decade. I've been part of the amazing Reef2Reef community for over four years, and I’m thrilled to share some exciting news with you! My journey with...

Take complete control of your reef aquarium with the Robo-Tank Aquarium Controller, powered by a Raspberry Pi for flexible and customizable automation. Robo-Tank has been trusted by hobbyists for over 9 years, and it's designed to automate and simplify your tank's daily operations. Whether you...

Hello everyone, I'm trying to set up the light control for my homemade lamp, where I use 3 W LEDs in a series of 3 connected to a 12 V source. The diagram of the connection board for the reef-pi is as shown in the photo, it happens that the LED does not turn off completely, always remaining very...

I have a new setup running reef pi 6.0 on a pi 3b+ The Heater Threshold field runs my macro which sends an email alert. I get the message when the probe measures higher than the value. And opposite, the chiller threshold is activating when the probe measures a low temperature. The GUI won't let...

I just installed a new setup and I was able to get the dashboard to bootup, but I'm not able to select any pins or drivers for any hardware. I assume this is related to an error I see in the service log which says: driver-subsystem: Failed load raspberry pi driver. Error: can't build hal pin 20...

Hello. The thing is that there are a lot of amazing DIY projects here about aquarium automatic that are drowning in the flow of "DIY stand from logs" topics. And Reef-Pi does not look alive any more; there have been no releases for a few years, and systems like Home Assistant are becoming more...

My last pH probe broke during a move so I got a new one, but until then never had any problems. I've had the new one calibrated and running for about two months and then it started to drift upwards. This past week it drifted all the way to 9, which I hope was about 0.5 off. I did a 50% water...

Hey all, I recently came across the reef pi controller and am super interested in it, particularly the robo tank implementation (mostly so I don't have to learn how to build electrical circuits/solder, buy all of the tools, etc.) One question I have is which model Raspberry Pi to get. General...

I have a 20g saltwater aquiarium. No sump, but a nano skimmer. And I came across the reef pi and thought it could greatly improve the stability. I've seen people build ATO, but none of the ones you can buy off the shelf seem to include salinity measurement, and I feel like that would be a major...

Hi @Ranjib, First thank You for great update with support of esp32. I've made some custom boards with esp32 :D pH reader (ver 1.0): PowerLed Lamp driver: Expansion ports: But I need Your help, I can't create jacks using esp32 driver. In log i get: May 10 13:14:01 home reef-pi[513758]...

I have been slowly putting my reef-pi together after the kids go to bed. I started ordering parts back at the end of November. Also there is an electronics surplus store near me that had almost everything needed that wasn't raspberry pi specific. The 12v power supply is left over from my days...

Hello! Wish I was farther along before posting here, but alas my skills have failed me. First off, huge shout out to Rob from Robo-Tank: couldn't have made it this far without him for sure; his insight and support have made this experience really eye-opening and incredibly fun. As an...

I thought I would share my double float switch setup. I have two float switches wired in series to a common inlet. The primary float switch sits in the water. When water evaporates, the buoy sinks, and it triggers the ATO. This is normal operation. The secondary float switch sits above the...

Hi all, Has anyone some good grasp on the reef-pi light settings? I just added a kessil a160 to my robotank (thanks for the support @robsworld78!) and for now I am running the "diurnal" profile. As far as I understood there should be an auto profile where you can set up intensity and color with...

The current status can now be found on GitHub You will find an overview of the current status and discussions with links. Also includes comprehensive Links to Sources/Guides, Schematics and Pictures reporting on the progress. I will post progress reports and pictures here as well.

Hi All - I have my reef-pi setup on version 5.2 with Robo-Tank. Things have been great although one of my temp probes have been a bit iffy but I’m sure one of the probes is just bad. My issue is actually with the Kasa/TP-Link hs300 that I setup through its app. I have it working just fine...

Hi, I had posted this in the dev thread but I decided it was a better idea to make my own thread. I have a Raspberry pi 2 I am trying to use for reef pi with a pond. I already have a thermometer working but I am trying to get pH working too. I bought The atlas pH circuit and the atlas carrier...

Hi, over the last couple years I've been using a script I made up to install reef-pi as there's quite a few steps and easy to miss 1wire, I2C or whatever. In 95% of the cases it worked great and made things easy for people but it wasn't perfect which is why I never shared it directly. A couple...

Hello, I would like to share my build and problems with reef-pi, hoping that someone can help me solving. First of all i will explain my setup : Raspberry pi 3 B+ running every function i need on reef pi. I have been trying using many function over the years but the basics I always used is Power...

So some might wonder what the heck happened to the 2.0 I just released, I know hey... First sorry to anyone who feels wronged if they got 2.0, the hardest part doing this is updates even though I'm excited about them I know not everyone is but it needs to happen for the long term. v1 and v2...

Hi everyone, As the title introduce, I am planning to use the Jebao DP4 (should arrive in a couple of days) for automatic water changes. Now, I am not in crazy need/necessity for AWC giving that I have a 30 gal tank with less than 25-26 g water.. and I change around 8% water every week.. BUT...

Hi, so I've been working on Robo-Tank 2.0 for the last while based on feedback, issues and other ideas. I got a prototype about a week ago and with the testing I've done so far I'm happy with it and thought I would show it off, a faceplate will be coming down the road. The main objective was to...

Hey there. I know there are plenty of threads already but I am a total noob so I’m sorry if this is a double post. I am building my reef pi to control my viparspectra 165 fixtures. I know that ML reefkeeping had an adapter for the leds for sale but they are out of stock. In a perfect world I...